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Sperm Biology
Sperm Biology represents the first analysis of the evolutionary significance of sperm phenotypes and derived sperm traits and the possible selection pressures responsible for …
Great Auk Islands; a field biologist in the Arctic
The story of the author's research expeditions in the Canadian Arctic, this book is for professional and amateur ornithologists, students in ecology and animal behaviour. The …
The Most Perfect Thing
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How …
Die Sinne der Vögel oder Wie es ist, ein Vogel zu sein
Wie es ist ein Vogel zu sein – ein bahnbrechender Blick auf die Sinneswelt der VögelDas Buch des britischen Ornithologen Tim Birkhead hat die englische Leserwelt im Sturm erobert …
WONDERFUL MR WILLUGHBY
Bird Sense
What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? …
RED CANARY
A tale of how an amateur obsession heralded the inherent dangers of genetic manipulation. Hans Duncker, a German bird enthusiast, spent a large portion of his life using feeding …
Birds and Us
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy.Looking to the skies above, we …
Red Canary
The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new for in the 1920s an …
The Wonderful Mr Willughby
From the author of Bird Sense and The Most Perfect Thing, a biography of Francis Willughby, the first ornithologist Francis Willughby lived and thrived in the midst of the …
The Most Perfect Thing
'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How …
The Magpies: The Ecology and Behaviour of Black-Billed and Yellow-Billed Magpies
Magpies are unmistakeable in their appearance, voice and extrovert, arrogant manner. While their persecution at the hands of gamekeepers over the last hundred years has made them …